University Foundation

State officials acted swiftly yesterday to remove the head of Bowie State University's fund-raising foundation and vowed to clean up tangled financial problems at the organization.Russell A. Davis, who was director of the Bowie State University Foundation, also faces a state investigation into whether he lied about his academic credentials when he applied for a job at the university, said John Lippincott, a spokesman for the University System of Maryland.Davis told Bowie State officials that he had a master's degree and doctorate in education from the University of Maryland at College Park.

When auditors uncovered problems at the nonprofit foundation that raises money for Bowie State University, the school president turned to an unlikely candidate for a cleanup: an administrator whose own financial history is marked by a trail of bounced checks, loan defaults and overdue taxes.Russell A. Davis, who in January was asked to straighten out the finances of the Bowie State University Foundation, was at the time having money taken from his wages to repay $3,873 that he improperly took from another nonprofit organization he once headed.

A memorial service will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Salisbury State University for Mike McGlinchey, the former Salisbury football and wrestling and Frostburg State football coach who died Monday from complications of a neuromuscular disorder.The family will receive visitors from 1: 30 until 2 p.m in the Wicomico Room of the Guerrieri University Center, and requests that any memorial contributions be made to the New England Medical Center; Salisbury State University Foundation Inc./Football; Salisbury State University Foundation Inc./Wrestling, or Friends of Football (Frostburg State)

Proud of University FoundationEditor: I am compelled to respond to your March 24 story, ''UM fund gets big money, spotty results.''As vice chairperson of the University of Maryland System Board of Regents and as a member of the executive committee of the University of Maryland Foundation Inc., I am extremely pleased with the operation of the foundation.And I am extremely outraged at the gross misrepresentations in your article. To list all of the inaccuracies would require an article of equal length.

A major contributor to Frostburg State University who is on its faculty said yesterday that he may try to withdraw his endowed scholarship fund from the university's non-profit foundation because the university president used money from the foundation to make political contributions.The donor, French professor J. B. Kerbow and his wife, Dorothy, gave about $60,000 to Frostburg State University Foundation Inc. last year for creation of the scholarship fund. Dr. Kerbow also called for the resignation of the university president.

FROSTBURG -- Frostburg State University Foundation Inc. officials continued to spend money on political events after being warned by a foundation member in August 1988 that such contributions were "flatly" barred by federal tax laws.Foundation director Mark L. Atchison, who is also a vice president of the university, said those donations included a $100 check written to buy a ticket to a Baltimore fund-raiser for Gov. William Donald Schaefer.Although the governor's campaign finance director said he had no record of the donation, he disclosed that the campaign had received a $500 contribution in 1988 from a similar non-profit foundation at Salisbury State University.

FROSTBURG -- Frostburg State University Foundation Inc. officials continued to spend money on political events after being warned by a foundation member in August 1988 that such contributions were "flatly" barred by federal tax laws.Foundation director Mark L. Atchison, who is also a vice president of the university, said those donations included a $100 check written to buy a ticket to a Baltimore fund-raiser for Gov. William Donald Schaefer.Although the governor's campaign finance director said he had no record of the donation, he disclosed that the campaign had received a $500 contribution in 1988 from a similar non-profit foundation at Salisbury State University.

Because of incorrect information supplied to The Sun, an article in Wednesday's editions erroneously reported the final recipient of $300 spent by the Frostburg State University Foundation for tickets to a gubernatorial fund-raiser. The Allegany County Democratic Central Committee said yesterday that the money remained in the committee's accounts.FROSTBURG -- In the past five years, the president of Frostburg State University has used a presidential discretionary fund to make at least $1,240 in political contributions, including $300 for a 1987 gubernatorial fund-raiser, university officials acknowledged yesterday.